Improvement in shoe-fasteners



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JONATHAN OOYKENDALL, OF FARMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,863, dated May 13,1873; application filed November 18, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN COYKEN- DALL, of Farmington, in the countyof Fulton, in the State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement on myShoe-Fastener patented September 6th, 1870 and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the annexed drawing, making a part of? this specification,in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in whichFigure 1 represents a side view, showing the shoe unfastened and theflaps thrown open; Fig. 2 a perspective view and Fig. 3 a side view,showing the shoe fastened.

Like letters in the different figures of the drawing indicate likeparts.

In my patent of September 6, 1870, the front of the shoe is providedwith flaps, arranged to overlap one another, and fastened by straps insuch a manner as to exclude the dirt or dust. The object of my presentinvention is to make the shoe so as to adapt the flaps to the rear endthereof, and providing the flaps with straps, as before, and fasteningthem in the same manner, only passing the bucklestrap around the frontof the shoe instead of around the back, thus more effectually excludingthe dirt or dust, and at the same time rendering the shoe morewater-proof. The quarters are left open behind above the counters, andone of the quarters prolonged so as to lap around the back of the footabove the heel, and provided with a strap, which is buckled to a secondstrap, which is attached to the edge of the opposite quarter, and whichstrap, in like manner, passes under said flap and through its base orthe quarter, and around the instep, meeting the first strap and bucklingor buttoning together.

A represents a shoe of any out or pattern, closed in front, and openbehind to the top of the counter. B is a flap or portion of quarter,which may be an integral part of quarter, or may be sewed onto thelatter. 0 is the outer guard or rear prolongation of the oppositequarter, forming an outer flap or guard to cover the opening of thequarter and the flap B. It is provided with an adjustable strap, (1. Dis an adjustable strap and buckle, attached to the extremity of theinner flap B, which passes under the flap G and through a slit, 6, atits base, thence around the quarter and instep, and buckles to th strap(1 of the flap 0.

Each flap may be stitched to their respective quarters, or may be anextension of the quarter.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In the shoe A, open behind upward from the top of the counter, the flapsB O with their straps D d, arranged and fastened in the manner and forthe purpose as herein shown and set forth.

Witnesses:

E. THURLOW, JOHN J ONES.

